Robert Drummond Elementary School

Size

Robert Drummond Elementary School is the largest of Pattonville R-III School District's 6 elementary schools; its 667 students are 10.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 456; Robert Drummond Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 2 with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 92, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (101 against 119). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 42.1% here and 35.2% across Pattonville R-III. White students are next, at 24.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 45.2% across Pattonville R-III and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 28.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 52.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 667 students, Robert Drummond Elementary School has 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 667 students would have about 54.2 teachers, so Robert Drummond Elementary School has 1.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Robert Drummond Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Buder Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Ritenour School District. Within 10 miles there are 117 other elementary schools, 29 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.